The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-09-23
Western HOrSemen'
From the Chicago Tribune.

j EIOIll VI N'iNNOO
As one goes West the American Sa"-
1le horse loses much Of his poetry
His tail is no longer a pant oruSh'
Mis- coat is no longer velvet, his VlenS
10 longer stand out with heated due
rass blood; he no longer champs and
,urvets and dances and fumes. he
simply gets up and gets, and the maj
IN the top Of him howls and IaSheS
9im. There is no poetry in the co"-
| ,ov's horse, but there is a heap OF
| Wis inertip, especially when his rider IS
| after the heetest steer i'll the herd or
| ;he widest band OF calves.
Rotten row isn't anywhere then'
! out the festive cowboy is glued to his
lorse, and no power but equine apo
2lexy or a gopher hole could dlslodge
lim. These fellows are not gracelui;
any Chicago riding master Would
| charge them 500 q lesson to teach
hem to ride in boulevard shape, but
thew are hOrsemen. They can ride
On the neck, or clinging to the clnch,
or with onlv a foot on the stlrrup;
hey can mount and dlsmount on a
'ulI run; they can pick up silver dol
ars from the ground; they can turn
!omersaults over the horses rump,
rab his tail, and spring again to h
saddle at full speed. They ale bar
0aric c~entaurs, but there is no grace
or refinement in their movements-lt
s not equestrianism.
The best type of American horse
manship obtains in the American cav
alryman. The soldier, with his &C
3outrements-his tapederos, as the
Spanish call his stirrup guides, his
blanket roll, his s~abertache, MS sad
lle-pockets, and his huge pommel in
front to rest his hands.
The horse is q clean, gaunt creature,
strong, sinewy, and utterly devoid OF
monkey business" He is trained to
walk. He never galIops except under
spur, but he will walk three miles an
aour on a march, and save him
SELF and his rider. The lamented Gen.
Candy, who was killed in the Modoc
var some years ago, once said: 81
nave paid out of my own pocket ST.
200 for q mare that would walk four
miles an hour. To get such a beast
1t must be nervous and Q~uick-footed
and entirely tractable, and then you
nave to pay for it"
The cavalry horse has two or three
trainings, but the chief of them is to
ryn l. g. Cf md n~U q =, WhN I'm MO
about horses will say that this is the
hardest thing to teach. The average
horse is one thing or the other; he is
IN fol swing or he is as lazy as q snail.
To get the desired point between these
Two is the object of all men who buy
horses for the army, and OF the caval-
cymen who, have to handle them.
Two years ago a party OF men stood
On the bank Of the Cimmaron River
in the Indian Territory. The waters
we're raging. All the army teamsters
said the stream was swimming and
and impossible. 1t was 1,500 yards
across. Fhe waters we're boiling. No
body dared venture. All at once on
the opposite Band was seen a single
cavalryman.
He rode q great brown horse and
wore a waterproof suit, and on his
back was strapped an oil-silk bag. He
bad his carbine and belt of cartridges,
and as the gallant brute
ne rode plunged into, the
stream he lifted and waved it
aloft. Then as the horse lost his
footing he caught the carbine on the
saddle, slid back, grabbed the horses
tail, and the brave beast brested the
Seething current.
"He'n make it," yelled a big te>
ster. "That's Jack Comfort or the
Fifth Cavalry! He's Major Summers
courier!"
Fifty people watched. The great
horse caught his footing. An instant
Tor a breathing spell. Private Com.
Tort climbed up slowly.in the water,
patted the neck OF his animal, got his
seat, and waded out.
what news, Jack?"
Cant stop; dispatches from Sheri-
dam" He waved his hand, and with
Q motion of his heel the strong, wet
horse lunged into a gallop through
the sand, and in a second was lost in
the willows and sage brush. The
American cavalry rider is the hard.
lest type OF his kind; the beast that
bears him is not equalled on any soil.